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Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images News | Getty Images International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde holds a news conference at the IMF headquarters January 17, 2013 in Washington, DC Early on in her career, Lagarde applied to attend Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA), a prestigious college in France which prepares …

Angel Valentin | Washington Post Framed portrait of President Donald Trump on the cover of a TIME Magazine hanging from a column in the Champions Sports Bar & Grill at the Trump National Doral Miami, in Doral, Florida June 24, 2017. Time magazine has since requested the Trump Organization to …

JEWEL SAMAD | AFP | Getty Images Iran’s envoy to the United Nations Gholamali Khoshroo speaks during a Security Council meeting after a vote on the Iran resolution at the UN headquarters in New York on July 20, 2015. The UN Security Council on July 20, unanimously adopted a resolution …

Goldman Sachs told clients that the environment is more difficult for picking stocks of quality companies, and as a result investors should be willing to accept longer holding periods and hold fewer stocks. The Wall Street firm has revised a list of recommended stocks it calls the GS Sustain 50 …

Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Marc Benioff, co-founder and chief executive officer of Salesforce.com Inc., center, arrives to a news conference with U.S. President Donald Trump and Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor, not pictured, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, March …

That further shrank the ratio of long to short positions, which had blown out earlier this year after money managers piled into the bull trade as OPEC began cutting its oil output in a bid to shrink global crude stockpiles and stabilize prices. The ratio now stands at roughly 2-to-1, …

Kevin Lamarque | Reuters India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi hugs U.S. President Donald Trump as they give joint statements in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, June 26, 2017. U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday hailed a first meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Indian …

Steel stocks rose Tuesday amid expectations of a favorable Trump administration announcement on trade policy. U.S. Steel briefly rose more than 2 percent, while AK Steel jumped 3 percent in midday trading. Steel Dynamics and Nucor each traded more than 1 percent higher. The Department of Commerce is expected this …

Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt | AFP | Getty Images Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon delivers a speech during a media conference at the Scotland House in Brussels as she is on a one day visit to meet with EU officials, on June 29, 2016. Sturgeon, who leads Scotland’s governing Scottish …

Susana Gonzalez | Bloomberg | Getty Images Employees work on the engine of a jet at the Interjet maintenance hangar in Toluca, Mexico. Consultants in the aerospace industry are backing blockchain technology to drive down the huge cost of plane maintenance. Blockchain has been described as a single ledger that …